ngeo-methods
Use when building the online Methods section of a Nature Geoscience manuscript so every quantitative Earth-science claim is grounded in data, model diagnostics, and quantified uncertainty. Structures Methods and the reproducibility layer; does not design figures or frame the headline result.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-methods --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Nature Geoscience Methods (ngeo-methods) ## When to trigger - Your main text is carrying instrument, sampling, or model-configuration detail that belongs online - You cannot tell what a reader *needs in the main text* versus what belongs in online Methods - Referees of a prior draft asked how a number was derived or how uncertainty was propagated - The Article is over length and Methods-type material is a prime relocation target - You are unsure how to state data and code availability ## The Nature Methods architecture Nature Geoscience separates the main text from an **online Methods** section (placed after the main text, divided by topical subheadings; verify current length allowances). The division of labor: - **Main text** carries only what a broad reader needs to *believe and interpret* the headline advance: the essential approach, the decisive observational or model constraint, and the headline uncertainty. - **Online Methods** carries the full, reproducible account: instruments and platforms, sampling and site selection, proxy calibration, model setup and forcing, statistical procedures, and the **complete uncertainty budget**. The online Methods is not an appendix of left
- When to trigger
- The Nature Methods architecture
- What every Nature Geoscience Methods must ground
- Grounding without over-claiming (a Nat. Geosci. distinctive)
- Data, code, and reproducibility statements
- Sentence patterns that buy referee trust
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ngeo-methods skill do?
Use when building the online Methods section of a Nature Geoscience manuscript so every quantitative Earth-science claim is grounded in data, model diagnostics, and quantified uncertainty. Structures Methods and the reproducibility layer; does not design figures or frame the headline result.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-methods --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.